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This Week with George Stephanopoulos hosted by Jake Tapper as told to The Bobblespeak Translations: "TAPPER: wow it’s memorial day and we’re still at war for the 11th straight year - that’s an all-time record! AUDIENCE: USA! USA!"

Montreal. "Young people are not always right. But a society is always wrong to beat them up." (Jacques Parizeau, PQ). "The NDP is professing strict neutrality." (Thomas Mulcair, NDP leader) In Montreal: "In fact, [last night's] protest seemed destined to end without a single arrest until late in the night, when Montreal police arrested two people for allegedly hitting a police horse" (oh?) "What happens is that everybody is fed up of paying, paying, paying. So the students' affair is a good way to tell the government, all the governments, that we've had enough." "The civil unrest consuming Quebec is also seizing media attention abroad — with more than 3,000 news reports from 77 different countries in recent weeks.

IL. "Since taking office, [Rep. Mike Quigley (D)] has worked more than 40 jobs, including conducting an elementary school band, working on a garbage truck, making pinball machines, laying water pipes, fishing for Asian carp, delivering pizzas and eating lunch at a Chicago public school."

OR "[T]he conservative nature of politics in SW Oregon, the isolation, the end of a long-standing federal support program and local dependence on what are now more limited natural resources have combined in something of a 'perfect storm.'".

WI. Milwaukee example of where "businesses committed to sustainability are taking off." You wouldn't know it from the campaigns. "Two [Madison brat festivals] shared a progressive tinge, reflecting their origins last year in the Walker protest movement. These modest alternative venues highlighted bratwursts and other treats from smaller Wisconsin-based suppliers." "The four WI state Senate recall elections on the ballot are nothing to sneeze at. Democrats need to flip just one of them to wrest control of the chamber from the GOP." "The John Doe probe has produced charges that Walker’s political confidante and frequent appointee to positions of public trust Tim Russell embezzled $20,000 from a charity intended to assist families of Wisconsin soldiers who were killed in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq." "According to an analysis by the political-money-watching Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, $3 out of every $5 raised by Walker came from outside Wisconsin. Walker's largest donors include Texas homebuilding king and Swift Boat for Veterans backer Bob Perry, Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, and Richard DeVos, heir to Amway fortune. A little more than $1 of every $10 given to Barrett was out-of-state campaign cash." Americans for Prosperity: "Lunch and dinner will be provided." Pass the foie gras!

Roboma vs. Obomney. A half-dozen times [Obama] uttered the signature phrase “I see an American century” — much as Mr. Romney has promised to deliver “an American century” in his speeches.

Green Party. Roseanne Barr on Presidential Run: Two Major Parties Are a 'Bunch of Prostitutes Who Work for Big Money' (hat tip Aquifer) (I deprecate Barr's trope; it's insulting to prostitutes.) Ursula Rozum challenges in NY-24 (hat tip Aquifer). "As part of her economic platform, Rozum said that she supports an "economic bill of rights" similar to what was proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944."

Romney. The United States now has two paths forward, Romney said. He called one "the pathway to Europe." "To shrink our military smaller and smaller to pay for our social needs. The other path: "to commit to preserve America as the strongest military in the world, second to none, with no comparable power anywhere in the world." Oh, bullshit. "The dip [in the jobless rate] is mostly explained, Romney argues, by people giving up their hunt for a job because of the poor market. Such people aren’t counted as jobless." Not bullshit. But too complicated. Just say Obama's faking the numbers.

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